The mean salary of professional baseball players is $2.58 million with a standard deviation of 0.33. A new player is hired with a salary of $2.76 million. What is the z-score of this salary?
A) 8.36
B) 16.18
C) -16.18
D) 0.55

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The z-score is calculated by subtracting the mean from the individual score and then dividing by the standard deviation: $z = \frac{(2.76 - 2.58)}{0.33} = \frac{0.18}{0.33} \approx 0.55$.

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